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"Passenger transit at Turkish airports rose at a rate of 7.3 percent last year, led by a significant increase at Sabiha Gökçen airport on the Asian side of Istanbul, the state airports authority said.
Passengers increased to 85.2 million in this period, and at a faster pace than in the previous 11 months, the authority said on its Web site on Tuesday.
Traffic at istanbul 's Atatürk Airport, operated by TAV Havalimanları, increased 4.2 percent to 29.8 million passengers in 2009, the authority said.
Passengers at Sabiha Gökçen, run by Limak Holding, GMR Infrastructure of India and Malaysia Airports Holdings, jumped 48 percent to 6.3 million last year, becoming Turkey's third-largest airport in passenger volume, Bloomberg reported.
The passenger traffic at the airport in the tourist city of Antalya, operated by Fraport, fell 2.4 percent to 18.3 million.
Meanwhile, Pegasus Airlines announced a new campaign that includes free tickets. The private company said it is giving away free one-way domestic flights to customers who buy a return international flight between Jan. 11 and Feb. 11.
"Pegasus is offering guests a free one-way domestic flight which must be taken before the end of June to those who purchase an international return flight departing Turkey via flypgs.com Web site between Jan. 11 and Feb. 11 and complete their return journey before the end of March," the company said in a statement. "Those who wish to claim their free domestic flight can do so via the Pegasus call center after completing their return international journey and until the end of June."
